ALBANY — Senate Democratic leader John Sampson of Brooklyn said this morning that action will be taken on a resolution to expel or censure controversial Queens Sen. Hiram Monserrate no later than the week of Feb. 8.

He said the Senate wanted to get the politically dicey Monserrate issue out of the way in time for the start of the President’s Week holiday on Feb. 13, a date that just happens to coincide with the popular Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus weekend at which Monserrate’s fate is sure to be a hot topic.

Sampson, asked on Albany’s Talk1300-AM about the fate of a newly introduced resolution that could lead to Monserrate’s expulsion from the Senate after his conviction on a misdemeanor charge of slashing his girlfriend, said, “We expect to being doing something with respect to the resolution…right before the holiday break.’’

Sampson refused to say whether he thought Monserrate should be expelled or censured – the two options recommended in a Senate report – saying only, “I want to have an opportunity to speak to all of my colleagues’’ before making his position known.